Re: performance question...

["Gideon van Gelder" <gideon@swingmaster.nl>]

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Hi Rob,

I run MV on a 486 server and pages display instantaneously.
Be sure not to have a lot of locked sessions running, it slows everything
down like mad.

-Gideon



----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Locke <rlocke@infiniteinfo.com>
To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Sent: woensdag 21 april 1999 14:36
Subject: performance question...


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>
> Hello...
>
> I am currently evaluating MV 3.12 (in non-group mode) on a P166
> running Linux (2.0.30).  The machine has 128M of RAM (verified by
> /proc/meminfo), but I am encountering performance issues surfing the
> simple catalog:
>
> First off, it takes about 2-4 seconds or more before pages begin to
> display (say when placing an order).  In an admittedly primitive
> experiment, we had 3 people order the same item at the same time and
> it took about 10-12 seconds before the shopping cart appeared on
> anyone's browser.  Do these numbers seem reasonable given the system
> configuration?  Are there any benchmark numbers to refer to?
>
> XOSView shows that no swapping is occuring and memory utilization
> maxes out at about 45%.
>
> On the same system, I ran a silly little shopping cart program I wrote
> a long time ago and it worked almost instantaneously.  I know I'm
> comparing apples and oranges - MV is 1000x cooler feature-wise.
>
> So, am I doing something wrong?  Is the machine just too weak?  Our
> production machine will be considerably beefier, but I'm worried about
> scalability given these initial numbers.
>
> I understand that some people are running MV with up to a million
> items in their catalogs.  Are these sites also receiving heavy
> traffic?  Are there any performance issues?  I assume these are
> monster machines!
>
> Anyways, I would love to use Minivend as our solution, so I would
> appreciate any insights.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rob Locke
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